Quotes About Struggle

It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

I can always go back to waiting tables, but I won't be very good at it. I'll never be good at it.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

It doesn't feel good when you have to struggle to get your pants on.

Sometimes the pain outweighs the good things.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

What I like about it is that I'm not somebody who's in movies. I'm a guy who's not very good going around the track with a bunch of guys who are a hell of a lot better.

The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been good to be all week, and the three places I missed, I didn't get good lies.

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

You have to go through a lot of crap to get to a good idea.

Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.